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      No . 449 , October 30 , 1858 . 1 THE LEADER . 1153

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      WEST INDIES . CUBA . Isr the explosion at Havanna on the 29 th ult . the loss of lives was 112 j and" 128 -wounded ; loss of property over 1 , 000 , 000 dols . . . ¦ ¦ - ' ,. ¦ ' , JAMAICA * Advices are to the 6 th inst . The inhabitants were much pleased with the arrangement by which the Panama steamers are to touch at Kingston monthly . The weather was fine , with moderate rains . GUADALOUPE AND MARTINIQUE . From the French islands we learn that Guadaloupe had received a large accession of labourer . * , comprising 700 Africans and 750 Asiatics . The sugar crop of the current year in Martinique was estimated at 55 , 000 hogsheads .

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      MEXICO . We have received Mexican news via Havanna . The steamer had arrived at that port from Vera Cruz on the 3 rd inst . A courier arrived there that morning from the city of Mexico , stating that Vidanrri had been defeated by General Miramon , near St . Louis , and that the General had captured a thousand prisoners and several pieces of artillery . At eight o ' clock the same morning a courier arrived at Vera Cruz , stating that Vidaurri had defeated Miramon , and that the latter had blown out his brains in despair . From Tampico we learn that Governor Garza had levied a contribution on all foreigners to the amount of

      100 , 000 dollars . On failing to raise the sum , he imprisoned a number of Spaniards and Americans for thirty-eight hours , allowing them nothing to eat or drink . They were finally released on a promise to pay the amount , and a number fled to the nearest station-The Spanish Consul took refuge in a Spanish vessel of war at Tampico , while his family ¦ wen t on board the Solent , and were landed at Havanna . Some important despatches are on their way to Washington from the Spanish Consul , and the American Minister would sail from Vera Cruz , on the 18 th , for the United States .

      On the way from the city of Mexico the diligence was attacked by robbers ; three of them were shot by the diligence party , who escaped uninjured . Intelligence received by the Arngo Confirms the rumour of the defeat of Vidaurri by Miramon , and other battles on a smaller scale had occurred , but the results were doubtful .

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      ABYSSINIA . A Paris journal , the Moniteur da I'Armae , publishes the following information relative to Abyssinia : — "A war has * just been commenced between the followers of Ras-Ubie , King of Tigre " , and the celebrated Kasai , who has proclaimed himself Emperor , under the title , of Theodore I ., and whose dominions comprise Ainhara and the entire south division of Abyssinia . A letter from Alexandria gives some details respecting the army of this Prince , of which the organisation ia remarkable for that country . The army consists of 80 , 000 men , and is formed Into three divisions , of which two are infantry and one cavalry . The latter ia commanded by a former noncommissioned officer of the Chasseurs d'Afrique . The troops are all armed with musicals , of which a third have percussion locks . The artillerv is composed of

      twelve field-pieces well appointed . It is commanded by an Italian , who was formerly a captain in the Neapolitan army . The troops arc formed into regiments , battalions , and companies , and they manoeuvre ivoU . The Emperor Theodore occupies himself much with his army : he is possessed of great natural talents , anil owes nil his success to his own exertions . This sovereign professes n great respect for the memory of the first Napoleon . He has had the history of his reign translated in the Abyssinian language and read in the public schools , which are numerous in his dominions . The Emperor Theodore is to commence his campaign next month . If ho succeeds he will unite tho kingdoms of Tigrc and Sehoa with the Amhara , and ha will thus constitute a vast state as important as tho ancient Abyssinian empire , of which Strabo has left us a description . "

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      FRAXCE . [ From our own Correspondent . ^ Paris , Thursday , G& & . ?> i . Amoxg independent and intelligent men there is but one opinion as to the conduct of the respective Governments of Portugal , France , and England in the matter of the Charles-et-Georges , that is to say , the revival of the slave trade by France . The behaviour of the first has been , under circumstances of great difficulty , courageous and dignified , that of the second the overpowering of a

      hectoring bully , and that of the tlur'd none of these things . Rarely has so great a slight been offered to Great Britain as on this occasion , and with the best intentions towards Lord Derby ' s Ministry , it cannot fail to be regretted that the conduct of Foreign Affairs should have fallen into the hands of a gentleman who esteems a French alliance above all things , even above honour and a loyal observance of treaties . When the conduct of Canning , under similar circumstances , is contrasted with that of those who pretend to follow his policy , it will be seen at what a long way off they do follow .

      Those who bear no love to England , and their name is legion here , do not attempt to conceal the fact that the despatch of two vessels of war to the Tagus and the peremptory conduct towards Portugal were intended to sho % v the world what a little store is now set upon the English alliance , and how completely subservient are English statesmen to the Imperial Government . No one denies , except those " . unfortunates" who are hired to do so , that the French Government is now reviving the slave-trade in a disguised form . And it is boasted that , although England has spent twenty millions sterling , and cover 3 the ocean with her cruisers , yet the French colonies shall be supplied with workers—' whether they be called slaves or immigrants is of ho moment .

      of the foundations of society . The mercantile speculations of a former Pope in indulgences separated England and Northern Europe from Rome ; and there -would be nothing surprising if the blunders of his successor in trampling upon the laws of nature , the setting at naught the authority of fathers Over their offspring , the impudent concoction of miracles , and the insolent charlatanism of Ultramontanes should cut off France from the diseased system which has its centre in the city of Seven Hills . I do not mean to say that we may shortly look for the wholesale conversion of France to Protestantism , although I conscientiously believe that were its ministers free to preach the Gospel , its growth and development would be rapid beyond all measure ; but it is evident to

      all men not blinded , by fanaticism that the French Catholic or Gallican Church will become separated more and more from that of Rome , and this separation would be hailed with delight by the great majority of the population . It suits the purpose of the present Government to flatter the Ultramontanes , and to affect great devotedness for the Holy See , for the sake of the support it receives in return . The priests are looked upon as useful auxiliaries in maintaining order , and hence they are courted and encouraged in their inroads upon liberty ; but the people , including all classes of society , are heartily sick of their prurient curiosity in confession , and of their tyranny . The chief evils of which the populations complain , and with just cause , are auricular

      confession and the forced celibacy of the priesthood . The first is held to be often made the means of gratifying nasty passions , so filthy as to be nameless , and workmen believe the confessional to be no better than the Lion ' s Mouth in Venice . There is scarcely a married man or father of a family who would not look upon the abolition of enforced celibacy as a benefit to humanity , for although marriage may be prohibited , the gratification of sensual passions is indulged in , as the records of police-courts would abundantly prove were not these trials invariably held with closed doors—a huis-clos . No Frenchman imagines that being debarred from marriage enforces continence among the priesthood , and a story is related of a country cure who , in pronouncing a funeral

      oration over his housekeeper , said , " C ' etait une excellente femme , mes tr&s chers frferes ; pendant vingt ans elle a demeure dairs ma maison , et elle nem ' ajamais fait d ' enfans ! " Eighteen months ago , a gentleman , recently married at Renncs , remarked in his wife a gradual estrangement and an attempt to return to a state of celibacy , for so it must be called for lack of a better expression . He questioned his wife , and at last ascertained , amid tears and earnest supplications'for absolute silence , that her confessor had represented the marriage state to next door to sin , and had recommended her to observc a strict continence towards her husband , as far as possible , which would render her acceptable before Providence . The husband was indignant , for he was

      fondly attached to Ins wife , and determined not to tolerate such a nasty interference in his household . He waited next clay for the cure crossing the public place , and , accosting him hat in hand , held language to the following eft ' eot : — " Sir , I have been informed of your dirty insinuations to my wife . If you dare ever again to pry into -what passes in my bedchamber I will wait for you , not here , but as you leave the church , and buffet you on tho cheek ; nor shall I hesitate to tell aloud wherefore I do so . " With the public mind brought into the state of discontent which actually and universally' exists , it may be easily imagined what an effect has been produced by the rape of Mortara . Government officials term it a most untoward event—one which must

      evidently place tho French Government m the position cither of antagonist or pf accomplice of Roman tyranny . Sincere and conscientious Roman Catholics do not hesitate to assert that tho conduct of the Papal authorities is diametrically opposed to tho teachings of tho Fathers of their Church . And as it would bo most unfair to allow it to be supposed that so numerous a class of Christians approve of forcible conversion—tho doctrine co » ij > elle intrare—much loss child-stealing , perhaps you will mako room for tho following extract from a letter on tho subject , written by one of the most learned in canon law , and as fervent a Catholic ns over lived : — " I am curious to see how M . Louis Vouillot , that famous champion of Ultramontane doctrines , will manage to refute St . Thomas , tho angolio doctor ;

      Pontns , doctor in uiroquo and Penitentiary of Pans ; Uancel , celebrated commentator of St . Thomas ; Jacques do iSaintc-Deuvc , who , seeing his groat learning and tho holinesn of his life , was tho oracle of bishops , chapters , curt }* , princes , and magistrates ; tho Sacred Congregation of Cardinals , having for mission to interpret tho Saorosnnctum Council of Trout ; tho docroe of these sacred interpreters , and tho solemn approval given thereto by Pope Innocent X ., tho greatest Jesuit of all , ho ovon who has been for ovor rendered so colubrntml by his bull against the proteiulo « l Viva Propositions of Jaiiuonlu * . To di ) so , M . Vouillot must malto himself moro Pap lnt than tho Pope , and tho Holy Collogo moro Jesuitical than the General Anulvivn , or tho General 1 iooi , ana a , Kruator Inquisitor tlmu * !•« infjui « Itor t ^ 111 " 1 " 111 * ' . *" frho DiotbAfiairo c /« Cos do CoHtckiuu . hy PonlM , Doctor in Theology , Penltputlary of the OhHroh In 11 la ( 3 voIb . folloi Purl-, 17 JJ 0 , vol . p . 8 « 1 , it «« stoted j Gubo 2 I .-Macoi . l , nrlosi-inlflsloiiiny In tho kingdom

      The Moniteur , in answer , to an article in the Tunes which has stung the Government to the quick , and proved that the English people are not participators in the cowardly abandonment of their most ancient ally , com £ s out this morning with an article in which the proofs pf guilt are suppressed in the most barefaced manner possible . What Was true the official paper suppresses , what is false it prints . It would not be profitable , but simply nauseating * , to wade through the string of falsehoods . Nothing is said about the immigrants coming on board with their arms tied behind their backs , nothing , of the admissions of the Government Commissary , but this impudent conclusion- — "The Charles-et-Georges had been carried to Lisbon to be there judged

      in appeal before a higher jurisdiction . The Government of the Emperor , who from the commencement neglected no effort to enlighten that of his most faithful Majesty on the true character of this affair , hoped that tho Cabinet of Lisbon , after having examined all the circumstances of the arrest , and the documents relative to the proceedings at Mozambique , would be anxious to recognise the irregularities of the proceedings adopted by the Governor-General of that colony towards a vessel which tho suspicion of beiny ; " engaged in the slave trade could not even reach . (!) This hope was at first deceived ; but the Portuguese Government , brought back by a moro attentive examination to more exact application , has glv&n xoau to tho tirst representations ] of tho

      Government or the Emperor . A determination to conform to equity , in causing to disappear nil trace of misintelligenoe between tho two countries , will have for effect , wo do not doubt , to restore to their relations the cordial character they had before this regrettable incident . " The Portuguese Government has been compelled by the abandonment of her oldest ally—Great Britain — to restore a slaver and her captain to liberty , and to pay an indemnity for hnving taken them in pursuance of tho treaty with Great ltritain . It must not bo forgotten that this slaver was captured in jiursunnco of stipulations made with Knglund to prevent tho slave-trade . For the loyal fullilinont ol'thin engagement Portugal has suffered outru ^ c , and Is to bo coiniicllcil to pav . There

      may bo no wish to forentnl tho account which tho nation will ask from Lord Derby ' s Ministry , but Englishmen cannot fail to remember that there was a timo when , if two French man-of-war hud dar ^ d to take n ship out of Portuguese water , a British fleet would have buon sont to Toulon to carry the captured ami tliu captors to tho Tugus . Uut from Chatham to Miiliiu'nbui'y Inure id a falling off indued ! Probably your readers are wcaricil cro tli ' u with discussions relative to tho fraudulent LnpUsm and

      scandalous abduction of tho Juwirdi prodiyy , young Mortara . Tho event , it is bulievcd , is pregnant with much groat or important than may nppanr at first Hlyht . When tho first account was pubH .-duid , a typographical error , held to bo intentionally committed by some malicious printer ' s devil , . substituted an > l o" for tlio " a" in tho second syllablo of tho name , and pooplo road in - " M ^ ortom " mart uvja ' v < . i ( &—i \\\ oiplnoua signification that the affair would piWo a death- * blow to the Ultramontanos- —rats d'tyliae , as they are familiarly called occasionally—and put a stop for ovor to their burrowing and undermining

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      TAIIITL Thh flfankeur Tohitien publishes an account of tho opening of tho native Legislative Assombly at Tahiti on tho 12 th of July . Tho French Commissioner , with hid Staff , accompanied Quean Pomnro to tho Protostant Church , whore tho coromony took placo . Tho Queen and tho Imperial Commissioner wore , rocoivod bv a deputation of twenty deputies , 'and liomlod by tho ' ltogout , Paraita . Tho Kov . A . Simpson , a Protestant minister , dollvorecl tho usual prayer , and n liymu was sung by tho ehlldron of tho charity schools . Tlio Queen ' s speech montionod that lior son , " Jolnville , " had been entrusted by her to tho Imperial Commissioner for tho purpose of being educated In tho French laws and ( language Tho Imporial Commissioner afterwards addressed the Asnqmbly In a long speech , in which ho pointed out all the improvements which had taken pluco since the hot session , and drew a very flattering pictures of the prosperous otato of tho country .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1858, page 1153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2266/page/9/